The good news for us is that our combat mission in Iraq has officially ended. Although our government says that all of our combat forces have left the country there is no doubt that we have some contingency troops there as a fighting reserve if necessary, but for the most part our combat mission in [...]
The thing that is kind of a mystery to the world right now is why did a North Korean MIG-25 crash in Northern China. There is much speculation and I don’t know if I believe the official story given by the Chinese. They claim that it crashed due to mechanical problems. Well that seems to [...]
You know I recently posted an article about how a crew of Somali pirates actually tried to jack a US Navy warship. This is the second time that this type of event has happened tha I know about. I talked about how boneheaded that these pirates were but now I’m all confused. A fereral judge [...]
The Department of Defense has released their report on China’s military modernization. The report states the obvious and I’m sure that the version that we get to see is the sanitized version. It doesn’t really tell much that we don’t already know but it does put some things in perspective. This is a summary of [...]
The US is going on record as opposing the use of military force in the South China Sea. There are many nations there who contest the use of much of the territory. Since China claims the entire region for itself you can see that herein is the problem. None of the other countries have the [...]
Our top man in Afghanistan has conceded that we will need to come to some sort of peace agreement with the Taliban before we can end the war. He is not saying anything here that he has not said in the past but the best time to make this announcement is now. Part of the [...]
The US and South Korea are conducting another joint exercise in the wake of the North Korean sinking of the Cheonan. The North Koreans are pooping off at the mouth as usual but they have sense enough to know how far to go. This exercise is an annual exercise called Ulchi Freedom Guardian. It is [...]
Twelve people were killed in a drone attack in Pakistan when our military ring customers used them to attack a known Taliban stronghold in Northern Waziristan Province. The locals and the insurgents are screaming long and hard about the drone attacks which are being conducted in their country and to be honest about it they [...]
a The latest situation in Iraq is that a suicide bomber has successfully attacked a military headquarters which was being used as a gathering place for Iraqi men to sign up as recruits for its security forces. The bomber posed as a potential recruit and detonated his bomb in the early morning hours. He managed [...]
I believe in the back of my military mind that we are at a critical point in the war in Afghanistan. As a matter of fact we are at the most critical place possible. I am a tactician of sorts and I believe that I am right. There has been heavy fighting in the Kandahar [...]
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